Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

KABARDIA

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 619 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
» Make a correction to this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

KABARDIA , a territory of S. See also:

Russia, now See also:part of the See also:province of See also:Terek. It is divided into See also:Great and Little Kabardia by the upper See also:river Terek, and covers 3780 sq. m. on the See also:northern slopes of the See also:Caucasus range (from See also:Mount Elbruz to Pasis-mta, or Edena), including the See also:Black Mountains (Kara-dagh) and the high plains on their northern slope. Before the See also:Russian See also:conquest it extended as far as the See also:Sea of See also:Azov. Its See also:population is now about 70,000. One-See also:fourth of the territory is owned by the See also:aristocracy and the See also:remainder is divided among the auls or villages. A great portion-is under permanent pasture, part under forests, and some under perpetual See also:snow. Excellent breeds of horses are reared, and the peasants own many See also:cattle. The See also:land is well cultivated in the See also:lower parts, the See also:chief crops being See also:millet, See also:maize, See also:wheat and oats. See also:Bee-keeping is extensively practised, and Kabardian See also:honey is in repute. See also:Wood-cutting and the manufacture of wooden wares, the making of b4rkas (See also:felt and See also:fur cloaks), and See also:saddlery are very See also:general. Nalchik is the chief See also:town.

The Kabardians are a See also:

branch of the Adyghe (Circassians). The policy of Russia was always to be friendly with the Kabardian aristocracy, who were possessed of feudal rights over the Ossetes, the Ingushes, the Abkhasians and the See also:mountain See also:Tatars, and had command of the roads leading into See also:Transcaucasia. See also:Ivan the Terrible took Kabardia under his See also:protection in the 16th See also:century. Later, Russian See also:influence was counterbalanced by that of the See also:Crimean khans, but the Kabardian nobles nevertheless supported See also:Peter the Great during his Caucasian See also:campaign in 1722-23. In 1739 Kabardia was recognized as being under the See also:double See also:protectorate of Russia and See also:Turkey, but See also:thirty-five years later it was definitively annexed to Russia, and risings of the population in 1804 and 1822 were cruelly suppressed. Kabardia is considered as a school of See also:good See also:manners in See also:Caucasia; the Kabardian See also:dress sets the See also:fashion to all the mountaineers. Kabardians constitute the best detachment of the See also:personal Imperial See also:Guards at St See also:Petersburg. A See also:short See also:grammar of the Kabardian See also:language and a Russian-Kabardian See also:dictionary, by Lopatinsky, were published in Sbornik Materialov dla Opisaniva Kavkaza (vol. xii., See also:Tiflis, 1891). Fragments of the poem " Sosyruko," some See also:Persian tales, and the tenets of the Mussulman See also:religion were printed in Kabardian in 1864, by Kazi Atazhukin and Shardanov. The See also:common See also:law of the Kabardians has been studied by See also:Maxim See also:Kovalevsky and Vsevolod See also:Miller.

End of Article: KABARDIA

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
K20 		[next]
KABBA

Site © 2006 - Net Industries